Audi’s Conventional-looking Electric Crossover Will Remain (Mainly) Hidden...
Marketing materials aside, visitors to Audi dealers in the near future won’t see much of the new E-Tron crossover. They’ll have to ask about it first, and, if they’re in luck, there’ll be a...
View ArticleVW Delays Decision to Dump Audi CEO Rupert Stadler
Volkswagen Group’s supervisory board has postponed a decision on the future of Audi CEO Rupert Stadler, who has been in jail since June due to his presumed connection with the automaker’s diesel...
View ArticleJailed Audi CEO Rupert Stadler Cut Loose From Company
Rupert Stadler, now former CEO of Audi, saw his contract with Volkswagen Group terminated on Tuesday, thus allowing the automaker to distance itself from a PR-squashing reminder of its disastrous...
View ArticleRare Rides: A 1983 Audi Ur-Quattro – the Start of it All
The Rare Ride seen here represented an important turning point in the history of all things automotive. A single vehicle which changed rallying and simultaneously made four-wheel drive a more realistic...
View ArticleIt’s Always Leg Day in This Pedal-powered Audi A4 Avant
It’s an idea that seems stupid and brilliant all at once, and a Dutch firm wants it to find a home in Europe’s passenger cars. Europeans, often portrayed in films as sexy people with a penchant for...
View ArticleAudi Under Investigation for Falsifying Documents, Dieselgate May Never End
Big scandals have a way of sticking around for a while. Not just days or weeks, but years. That’s the case with Audi, which is now facing a new investigation in Germany for falsifying documents,...
View ArticleAfter Firing Its Boss, Audi Prepares to Pay the Piper
The scandal has raged for over three years, and Audi clearly wants to be done with it. The company said in a regulatory filing Tuesday that, like Volkswagen, it will not fight a fine handed down by...
View ArticleAudi E-Tron Delayed As EVs Suffer from Global Supply Issues
Audi’s first electric sport utility vehicle, the much-touted E-Tron, will arrive at dealerships a month later than anticipated. According to the automaker, a software development issue has stymied the...
View ArticleFresh Faced: Audi Teases 2019 R8’s New Look
Audi is prepared to debut important updates for the second-generation R8 within the next few months, assuming a teaser image floating around the internet is anything to go by. While you’ll still have...
View Article2019 Audi R8 Revealed: The Everyday All-star
As supercars go, Audi’s R8 is one of the more endearing examples. Unlike the stereotypical Lamborghini Huracán driver, you don’t normally see someone exiting an R8 wrapped in a gaudy, overpriced...
View ArticleVolkswagen Might Put Audi on the Back Burner, Spend More Time With Ford: Report
According to sources who spoke to Reuters, Volkswagen Group has more interest in pursuing technological relationships with new partners, especially Ford, than continuing on with Audi as its main...
View ArticleReadying the Spork: The 2020 Audi Q4
Audi has confirmed its design team has finished applying the finishing touches on the company’s first-ever Q4. Its job will be to tackle the increasingly popular subcompact luxury crossover segment...
View ArticleAudi Pulls the Sheet Off e-tron GT Concept in LA
After some healthy automotive foreplay, Audi finally took the wraps off its new e-tron GT Concept at the LA Auto Show. Offering the best elements of the brand’s design language, the vehicle previews a...
View ArticleA Cheaper Audi EV’s on the Way: Report
Customers won’t get a chance to buy an Audi E-tron SUV until next year, but, if money’s tight, they might want to hold off for a while. The German brand’s first electric utility vehicle (seen above)...
View ArticleAudi Claims Women Like Butch Cars Because It Needs It To Be True
Audi is claiming women want butch, masculine, testosterone-saturated designs when it comes to their automobiles. Though it isn’t clear if they’re doing this because the automaker conducted extensive...
View ArticleU.S. Indicts Four Audi Managers for Diesel Deception
Four men tasked with developing a very dirty diesel engine for use in Audi vehicles have been indicted by a U.S. grand jury. The four, including the head of Audi’s Diesel Engine Development department,...
View ArticleBuy/Drive/Burn: Big German Luxury Sedans of 1991
They’re large, expensive, and hail from a time when the sedan was king of the luxury pyramid. German exclusivity personified in three flagships — but which will you burn? BMW 735i The sporty one. BMW...
View ArticleQOTD: Graceful Nineties Aging From Places European?
In a QOTD post last week, we walked down Nineties memory lane. The topics of discussion were the vehicle designs we still found stylish in The Current Year. In that post, conversation was restricted to...
View ArticleAudi Q7 Updated, Infotainment Screen Moves to Dash – Yes, It’s a Big Deal...
A large portion of the automotive industry tends to follow Audi’s lead on interior design. That has resulted in the proliferation of the worst phenomenon in modern automotive history — the floating...
View Article2020 Audi S8 Adds Power and Handling, Retains Reserved Teutonic Looks
The Audi S8 has always been the Q-ship of choice for those who wanted a luxurious sports sedan that flew under the radar of untrained eyes. For the 2020 model year, Audi increases the output to 563...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 2005 Audi S4
Keeping any Audi on the road can be costly, once the car gets a decade or so old, and I see plenty of solid-looking four-ringers in the self-service junkyards I frequent. You’d think that the...
View ArticleImportable or Impotable? Audi Debuts A1 Citycarver for Slick Urban Youths
Padding out its crossover lineup and going downmarket, like every other premium automaker, Audi presented us with a new model this week — the A1 Citycarver. Based upon the A1 Sportback, the Citycarver...
View ArticleAudi A3 Cabriolet Reportedly at Death’s Door
We’ve got some shocking news for convertible fans. The Audi A3 Cabriolet is still on sale in North America. Did you forget that it existed? We sure did. Fortunately, this isn’t a problem we’ll have...
View ArticleBragging Rights: Audi E-Tron Becomes First EV to Pick Up IIHS Top Safety...
Audi’s E-Tron has become the first battery electric vehicle to receive the coveted Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Top Safety Pick+ award. However, considering the group rarely tests EVs, it may...
View ArticleAudi Ups Its Wagon Tease Game
Despite wagons facing a growing unpopularity that rivals that of free speech, Audi continues winking and nudging at North America, sneakily hinting that the king of all long-roofs might make its way to...
View ArticleForbidden Fruit No Longer: Audi’s RS 6 Avant Is Headed to America
Months of teasing gave way to an admission of intent late Tuesday. After dangling Avants wagons of yesteryear in front of social media watchers since the spring, Audi finally came out and admitted the...
View ArticleAudi Teases AI:Trail Quattro Concept Before Frankfurt Motor Show
Audi is teasing a new model slated to debut at next month’s Frankfurt Motor Show — an off-road specialist called the AI:TRAIL Quattro. With massive wheels and a nonexistent approach/departure angle,...
View ArticleAudi Still Under Threat of New Dieselgate Fines
Dieselgate never dies. Germany’s Federal Motor Transport Authority (Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt) has informed Audi that it will be subjected to additional fines if it fails to meet upcoming deadlines for...
View ArticleRare Rides: The Original Audi 5000 From 1980
Before Audi revolutionized rallying and four-wheel drive cars with the Ur-Quattro circa 1980, the company made front-drive vehicles underpinned by Volkswagen platforms (some things never change)....
View ArticleWagon Wonderland: Audi A6 Allroad Practically Confirmed for America
With the Audi RS 6 Avant confirmed for America and the manufacturer teasing wagons via social media throughout the summer, we figured Germany would soon send another wagen our way. And while nothing...
View Article2019 Audi A6 Review – Simply Stunning
Once upon a time, if you were shopping for a luxury vehicle that drove like a sports car, you’d get a BMW or, in some cases, a Jaguar. If you wanted one strictly for its comfort and opulence, you’d get...
View ArticleA Scarce Audi Lands Extra Range, Lower Price
Have you seen an Audi E-Tron (officially, “e-tron”) on the street? This writer hasn’t. Yet the electric Audi crossover has been on offer for a little over a year now, slowly paving the way for an...
View ArticleVariation on a Theme: Audi Q5 Sportback
Like it or not, and it seems most of our readers don’t, manufacturers are pressing ahead with the coupification of luxury-grade small crossovers. The BMW X4 and Mercedes-Benz GLC Coupe generally offer...
View ArticleThe 2020 Audi A6 Allroad, Did You Realize it’s On Sale Now?
It’s an occasion worthy of a future “Rare Rides” label when the North American market is graced with a new large wagon. Only a few of the breed are for sale presently, and that quantity has remained...
View ArticleBuy/Drive/Burn: European Luxury Wagons in 2020
Checking through the Buy/Drive/Burn archives, we’ve considered three sets of wagons previously: American wagons of the Seventies, Japanese wagons of the Nineties, and European wagons of 2004. But...
View Article2019 Audi Q8 quattro Review – Technocratic Sport
Maybe I am softening in my old age, or maybe crossovers are getting a bit better to drive, or both, but I found myself semi-charmed by Audi’s Q8 crossover. Of course, a luxury crossover should be...
View ArticleRare Rides: The 1990 Audi V8 Quattro, First Time Full-size Failure
In our last Rare Rides, we discussed how the W126 S-Class established the model as a default for the large German sedan shopper. I also referenced the failed attempt at S-Class competition which was...
View ArticleBuy/Drive/Burn: $65,000 European Luxury Sedans for 2020
In the last edition of Buy/Drive/Burn, we discussed three large European wagons with a $65,000 price point. The Buy vote was a toss-up between the E-Class and the A6 allroad. Today we cover the sedan...
View ArticleFirst Audi ABT RS7-R in North America
The first new ABT RS7-R Limited Edition version of the 2021 Audi RS 7 has been completed by GMP Performance in Mooresville, North Carolina, at their facility in Lake Norman. This performance Sportback...
View ArticleAudi Boss Paints Gloomy Picture for Small Automobiles
While Europe often appears as a safe haven for punchy subcompacts, the reality is that the continent’s biggest sellers happen to be reasonably sized automobiles equipped with a tepid engine option. The...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 2007 Audi S6
When I’m wandering junkyards and looking for interesting stuff, I don’t pay much attention to Audis of our current century. No, I want to photograph old Audis, preferably ones from the 1970s. I make...
View ArticleRare Rides: An Almost New Audi S8 From 2001 (Part I)
Rare Rides has featured the predecessor of today’s sedan previously, in a very pearly 1990 V8 Quattro. After Audi spent a few years unsuccessfully trying to sell its first-ever attempt at a flagship...
View ArticleRare Rides: An Almost New Audi S8 From 2001 (Part II)
In Part I of the D2 Audi S8 story, we covered the foundations of the A8 as Audi attempted a do-over after the V8 Quattro. Today we’re all about S8. Coinciding with the development of the new 4.2-liter...
View ArticleAudi Transitioning Solely to EVs Doesn’t Include Chinese Market
Volkswagen Group has been prattling on about electrification for years and ultimately decided that Audi would be the tip of its progressive spear. The brand has cachet as both a luxury and performance...
View ArticleAudi Abandoning Subcompact Cars Over Regulatory Pressure
Audi is discontinuing the A1, citing Europe’s regulatory landscape as the main cause. Eager to limit the amount of CO2 coming out of tailpipes, the European Union has placed strict limits on...
View ArticleAudi Press Car Used to Help Flood Victims
Press-car abuse is a part of the automotive journalism industry. So, too, is damage caused by normally diligent journalists who made a mistake/had some bad luck. I don’t intentionally abuse vehicles,...
View ArticleAudi Skysphere Concept Previews Transforming Automobiles
It often feels like the automotive industry has hit a creative wall where every concept vehicle has to be another electric vehicle offering next-generation connectivity and some self-driving claims...
View ArticleVolkswagen Group: Audi Employs Ken Block, Porsche Making 718 Electric
Despite being the target of a German lawsuit accusing the manufacturer of not being green enough, Volkswagen Group is probably the legacy automaker touting the merits of electrification with the most...
View ArticleAudi Resurrects Historical Horch Nameplate, Creates New Luxurious Rare Ride
Audi recently announced a new, super luxurious version of its largest sedan, and it’ll wear some branding not seen in a very long time. Wake up Horch, it’s 2022. Horch was founded in 1904 as a luxury...
View ArticleBuy/Drive/Burn: Near Premium Midsize Sedans From 2011
Today’s Buy/Drive/Burn trio are near-premium sedans from the midsize segment. This set was a suggestion from commenter CoastieLenn on our B/D/B entry from last week. The year is 2011 – does Acura,...
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